Grover Norquist: ‘I Engaged In A Week-Long Drug-Fueled Orgy With Corporate Income Taxes’
President of Americans for Tax Reform Grover Norquist confirms that he carried on a 28-year salacious affair with taxes.

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Grover may not be everyone’s cup of tea (attempt at humor). Mr. Norquist through dogged determination utilizing his own set of principles has been quite successful achieving his goals. And he mans up to freely talk about them without hedging or dodging.

Our historical landscape is littered with these characters, who mold viewpoints that will eventually be rejected in large part, perhaps accepted in small measure. Whether from left, right or the sanitarium, we manage to eventually put all the views into the blender and muddle along. It may not be as crisp a decision making process as in the Peoples Republic of North Korea, but it is vastly preferable.

[...] Repost from a little while back in light of Barry Ritholtz’s post on Grover Norquist being funny in public on purpose. He was every bit as shocked as I was when I saw which Onion article Norquist had up on his wall behind his …. [...]

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